The Beacon ran a terrific article this month on the Interurban - a light rail service which ran in the Grand Valley in the early part of the 20th century. Read about the interurban.
For more history on our region, check out our Grand Junction History in Pictures Timeline. It’s a great informative source, as [...]
The Museum of Western Colorado’s 11th Annual Re-Enactors’ Day was held on April 30, 2010 at the Museum of the West. The day was a great success with over 500 students, teachers and chaperons attending. The event featured blacksmiths, Museum volunteers, archaeologists, Dutch oven cooking, military re-enactors, saddlemakers, gold panners and many more historical [...]
Saturday, May 15th
9 am - 4 pm
Cross Orchards Historic Site
3073 F Road • Grand Junction, Colorado
The flowers are blooming, the newborn animals are getting their bearings - Spring is a beautiful time at Cross Orchards! Bring the entire family to our new event and enjoy the beautiful landscaping and the ambiance of the historic site.
Admission
$4 [...]
Canyonlands by Night… Canadian Rockies… Museums of Utah… Crow Canyon… Telluride… The Alaska Experience… Black Canyon of the Gunnison Hike… Leadville… Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta… Durango Adventure… Grand Canyon and Havasupai…
Trips far away and in our own backyard.
We make the travel arrangements, do the driving, include many meals and admissions - and, last but not least, [...]
Cool facts about the Panama Canal
Since it opened August 15, 1914 more than 960,000 ships have transited the Canal. (That’s almost 1 million!)
It takes a ship an average of 8-10 hours to transit through the Canal.
A ship saves 7,860 nautical miles when traveling from New York to San Francisco through the Canal instead of [...]
We have been hard at work ironing out the details of the Spanish Missions trip and after looking it over all I can is one thing…wow! This trip will truly hit the highlights of northern New Mexico and will be full of history and culture.
Our first day will be a long drive to the [...]
On January 21, Terry Hammer, Jr. gave a presentation on the Colorado Militia from 1861 to 1927. Around 50 people attended January’s program.
All Oral History Programs will be held at noon in the Whitman Educational Center, 248 S. Fourth Street. The programs are jointly sponsored by the Museum of Western Colorado and the Mesa County [...]
If you didn’t get a chance to see the exhibit yet, check out the article with photos here that was in the January 22nd Grand Junction Free Press. Then come in to the Museum of the West and see the whole exhibit!
The newest exhibit at the Museum of the West opened Friday, January 15. Three hundred people attended the opening of Distant Cities in the Mist: The Search for Lost Kingdoms. Native American singer Tim Trujillo provided entertainment to the crowd.
Museum of West exhibit focuses on explorers of Grand Valley
Explorers found their way to the Grand Valley for hundreds of years, and for the most part, they were believed to have passed through on their way to someplace else.
More and more, though, the Grand Valley, and the imposing Grand Mesa overlooking it, appears to have [...]